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Saturday, 17 May 2014

An unidentified young man in Ilobu community, in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, met his Waterloo in the early hours of Wednesday while attempting to cut off the head of a corpse, buried in Tonto compound in the area.The suspect’s accomplices fled in terror after seeing half his body get stuck mysteriously in the grave. His death has generated concern among the terrified residents of the Ilobu community.

According to Saturday Tribune , the victim and his partners in crime allegedly came to Tonto compound
in the early hours of Wednesday with a plot to exhume the corpse of an
aged woman and sever her decomposed head, allegedly for ritual purposes.

A credible source in the community, who did not want to be named said
that

“this particular corpse was buried five years ago and the suspected
ritualist attended the burial in Ilobu.There are indications that he did
not dig the grave alone. What we discovered is that he may have been attempting to cut off the head of the corpse when something suddenly hooked him as he managed to force half of his body into the grave to cut off the head.He
got hooked and died on the spot, a development which possibly compelled
other ritualists to run away from the scene so that they may not be
affected by the mysterious thing that killed (their colleague).”

While commenting on how the residents of Ilobu got to know about the
incident, since it happened in the wee hours, the source said a woman
who was hawking ogi (a local corn meal) early in the morning of Wednesday spotted the torso of the suspect sticking out of the grave and raised the alarm.

“His corpse was discovered around 6.30am and his head was covered in
mud. The residents here alerted the police division in Ilobu and they
later came to evacuate the body and put it in their van before taking
him away."

When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr Ibrahim
Maishanu, said he was aware of the incident, and that the police would
conduct investigation to determine what led to the suspect’s death.

He said the police could not confirm that the suspect was a ritualist
because of the circumstances surrounding the discovery of his corpse at a
grave in Ilobu; that they would have to investigate the matter before giving any concrete information on the incident.